have an old ibm t20 with an 11 gig hd. it was running windoz 2000 but I wanted to install lucid on it instead. I reformatted the hd to ext 2 and when I boot the cd, the hd is not recognized so I can't make the install.
help appreciated

When you say "not recognised" - does gparted see it? Maybe you could reformat it (I like ext4).
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it doesn't seem to matter what filing sys that gparted live formats on the hard drive since puppy lucid still doesn't find the device. using its native gparted, no device beyond the floppy and the cd are seen.
I assume like scsijon says, that the prob is in windoz 2000 mbr but am having difficulty understanding clearly his recommendations, though I will try to gin up an old floppy with dos and see if I can wipe the mbr sufficiently. and scsijon, this is an old ibm t20 fyi.
if anyone else can chime in with something effective, I'd greatly appreciate.
thanks again to all for input.

Go in with gparted (if you can make IT recognize the drive) and create a new partition table, type "msdos" (default type). Some windows versions back in the day liked to make trouble by being inventive with those things.

Then create a new ext3 partition (ext2 can corrupt upon power failure or other unexpected shutdown).

BTW, if you hear a clicking noise when the drive is accessing (or trying to be accessed) that means mechanical failure of the drive is imminent and you need a new hard drive._________________

I believe I found that the BIOS of IBM Thinkpads of the T20 T21 T22
era claimed the hard drive's number of heads geometry
was 240 rather than 255 (which the Dell BIOS detected from
the hard drive's hardware itself.)

I can't find the better web page describing this issue anymore
but here is some T20 information:

The Lighthouse utility does not pick up the drive. Boot and nuked with UBCD, partitioned with PartedMagic (UBCD) not forgetting to set the boot flag, still no joy. Suspect driver problem but I don’t know for sure , any ideas how I can verify this please? Wary looks great running live, just wish I could install it.

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